How to live on $600 per month

You can't cherry pick. We might have a low tax rate on income, ( just don't use the toll roads or buy anything ), but the math isn't close on any other category. Your trailer rent with utilities start at about $800 a month for a 20' travel trailer with hook ups. If you haven't been to Publics lately, you won't find a "Thrifty" bag of groceries even if you skip the milk and toilet paper. And Lord Help You if you want to live near a business that you don't own. In case you not been in rush hour for a while, you'll go through your gallon of gas sitting in traffic. The average commute time in the urban areas is now north of 45 minutes one way. Getting those lower rents means getting further and further from where you work.

It might be Paradise but it ain't cheap.

 

Rofl, and if you're born and RAISED in NYC?

 

I would suggest one at that income level walk or ride a bike

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Leave. Got any toughies?

 

OK. I've got to ask. Where can you pitch a tent in St Pete?

 

Know what it costs to move to another part of the country without another job lined up?

Yeah. That's a toughie.

 

Sell off what you don't need. Get creative. Like somebody said earlier, where there's a will there's a way. If you're trying to find excuses to stay where you can't afford to live, you'll find them. But if you actually want to find a way to move somewhere else where you can live more comfortably, you'll find that too. It's all in what you're focusing on.

Does that make you tethered to it?

 

The (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) looks for excuses why it CAN'T be done. The winner finds a way it CAN. See what the lesson is here?

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What does it cost?

 

Awesome!!!!

Every single person should live this way!! What a booming economy we would have!!

 

Then you do like my family did along with millions of others...you move out of NYC. They aren't serfs that are tied to the land.

 

You tell me. You seemed to think it's free.

 

You're missing the point of the thread. Live however you want. Just live within your means.

 

It was rural. Over half of us now live in the cities. You can't wander by a potato patch and dig up supper anymore. And there is just so much demand for migrant labor these days so today's Okies would be in trouble.

 

Sorry.

This thread is so removed from basic reality that I am completely unable to care what you think.

 

I could sell all of the meagre possession I owned, and would be lucky to get a few hundred dollars for them. I don't think that would be enough to move and live in another part of the country, especially if I did not have a job lined up.

 

Sure, mindset can play a part in how things turn out. However, mindset is only one part of the equation. You can have the mindset and still end up royally borked.

Can you not even CONSIDER the fact that there are factors outside of a persons control at work as well? I can change my attitude all I want, and yes, it MAY increase my chances of success.

But, I do not want a CHANCE. I want a garuntee. I want safety and security, and a certain standard of living. And no, I do not need to live like a king, I just want to live the same quality of life I had a couple of years ago, before the rising costs of living started cutting into my pay and I was forced to start cutting back.

No, I am not lazy. I work 40 hours a week, every week. I do not currently get ANY form of government assistance, and I would like to keep it that way. However, I am not willing to slave away (by working tons more hours) just to maintain my current standards of living. Especially when there are people that make massive amounts of money by eating into my wages to increase the profits of their companies.

I like to think I am pretty much an average American in my thinking, and that there are a LOT of people that think similarly. And if that is the case, then WE are the majority, and once you push our back to the wall we will have no choice (and no problem) with pushing back until a fairer balance is restored.

This is what you have to deal with, people. Time to stop kicking the can and choose a path.

 

No. Threads like this are kind of fun, but meaningless.

People who are jealous of the poor are the most pathetic people around. We could argue all day about how good or bad people on welfare or the working poor have it, but I do not think I could honestly convince you of anything. In your mind and the minds of people like you every poor person is living the life of Riley.

I see no point in arguing, because you are a lost cause.

 

Then enjoy your life exactly as it is. Because it is the one you have chosen for yourself. Read your post. Do you see what you are doing? You are finding reasons to stay exactly where you are. Instead of looking for ways to get where you want to be. Remember what I said earlier? If you look for reasons to stay stuck, you'll find them. Ultimately, we all find whatever we're looking for. Most of us just waste our lives looking for the wrong things. More often than not, looking for excuses to stay put rather than opportunities to change.

 

Removed from reality how? I live on only a little more than what the OP suggests, and I get by just fine.

 

Sorry, but I will find a way to keep my living standards, regardless.

I will use all legal methods first, I assure you.

But if it gets to the point where I lose my job and cannot get another one, and wind up on the streets and eating from dumpsters, then expect me to start stealing from people to survive.

And I won't be stealing from other poor people, I will make sure to hit the targets that have the best payout.

When I wind up in jail, you will have to pay for my survival then too.